From: Jasper
Date: 14 Nov 2009
Time: 03:53:01 PM
Rovaan – Thanks for that “invoking the Fifth” reminder in Murder in Brentwood. You had to do some admirable detective work to find it given the long separation between Art Harris’ mention of Fuhrman patting him on the shoulder and his question about how Fuhrman felt “that day.” In between, he said a lot about F. Lee Bailey and the defense strategy for selecting the “biased jury” and presenting its case. All we know about the Art Harris interview with Connie Law is what Fuhrman said about it in Murder in Brentwood (p. 126-127) and what was said on the old Court TV Board about it taking place in October, 1994. http://www.smartfellowspress.com/_Iago2006/_1106a/00000148.htm .................. Harris never said anything about the McKinny tapes or about Fuhrman going into the courtroom to take the Fifth. By the time he posed his question to Fuhrman about how he felt entering the courtroom “that day,” he could have been talking about Fuhrman’s first appearance on the witness stand in the criminal trial or the day he had to come back and invoke the Fifth. That’s why I transcribed as much as I did of what Harris said leading into his question that got the “Gladiator” reply. You, Rovaan, had to figure out which day he was talking about. The day Fuhrman patted Harris on the shoulder was the only day he could have been sitting next to Dominic Dunne. .............. The historical Narcissus name that you found in the context of Gladiator is also VERY interesting on at least three levels: ...............1) Gladiator is a fictional story based on a hodgepodge of historical facts and three other movies, mainly The Fall of the Roman Empire http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0058085/ with some gladiatorial sequences from Spartacus http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/ with Woody Strode (Sergeant Rutledge) and Demetrius and the Gladiators http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046899/ . A movie buff would see those other movie connections as they arose in Gladiator. A “war and history buff” would know where all of these intersecting movies strayed from historical fact. .................2) Narcissus in Greek mythology relative to its use by psychoanalysts http://ygraine.membrane.com/genesis/notes/narcissus.html .................3) This one puts Fuhrman in the figurative gladiatorial arena again as it come from one psychiatrist (Dr. Geary) noting his “Narcissistic” personality and another psychiatrist (Dr. Gottlieb) making these notes on what Fuhrman told him (p. 205-207 of A Problem of Evidence): “In the Marines, also, he has fond memories of killing and beating up people without any remorse...” Consider Fuhrman’s identification with the man who killed Commodus in the movies and in real life entering the arena. Consider the stab wounds on Ron and Nicole’s bodies that were consistent with one man holding a knife in each hand and what Fuhrman said about his second wife and her lover. He said, “It’s better I didn’t find out till afterward. I would have killed them both.” ............... One more thing... It was the fame that Russell Crowe’s character in Gladiator gained in the area that got him close enough to Commodus to kill him.–Jasper